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LIMA, Peru -- Peru's top appeals court Monday upheld the 20-year sentence on terrorism charges of Lori Berenson, a U.S. woman convicted of aiding Marxist rebels, exhausting all her legal options in Peru, a senior judge said. "Her sentence has been confirmed," said Guillermo Cabala, president of the section of the court that reviewed her "very complex" case. It was a majority ruling, he said.

Three Appeal Court judges reduced a life jail sentence imposed on an English fan for riotous behavior outside a stadium to three years. Judges said the life sentence imposed on Kevin Whitton, 26, last November for riotous assembly outside Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground, was ''unjustified and wrong in principle.'' They also varied other sentences imposed on Whitton at the time for injuring and other violence offenses so that he now has to serve a total of 10 years.

Go ahead. Don't be shy. Complete the following sentence: The 2010 NBA Finals Game 7 winner will be ... My answer? 1. ... not the Orlando Magic. 2. ... not the Boston Celtics. 3. ... the Los Angeles Lakers will win their second straight NBA championship tonight by unleashing a whole lot of Kobe Bryant on the Boston Celtics in an epic Game 7 for the Ages. Your turn, please and thank you.

RECENT REPORTS from major metropolitan areas stated that crime was down because prisoners were serving more of their sentences.Maybe we have a simple solution to reducing the crime rate, if we could just eliminate the word ''more'' and have prisoners serve ''all'' of their sentences, then wouldn't the crime rate be further reduced?Is this too simple? Can't we have a judicial system that, when a law violator is sentenced to a certain period, requires the sentence be served. If statistics show that serving a full sentence will reduce the crime rate, then this is something that should be considered.

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- A judge has convicted ex-dictator Manuel Noriega of corruption, adding eight more years to the 90 to which he already has been sentenced. The latest sentence was the result of an anticorruption investigation that found that Noriega had mismanaged $1.5 million from the state-run agriculture and livestock bank. The judge also slapped a $20,000 fine on Noriega. Noriega, deposed in a 1989 U.S. invasion, is serving a 30-year sentence in Miami on drug-trafficking charges.

KISSIMMEE -- A man whose starving cows provoked rage from neighbors and the community at large had his sentence reduced Tuesday. Cecil Todd Yates, 44, will spend 15 months in jail, County Judge Ronald Legendre ruled. A week earlier, Yates was sentenced to 18 months. He had time shaved from the sentence because he complied with an order to sell the herd by Feb. 1. Yates pleaded guilty in December to animal cruelty and confinement of animals without sufficient food and water, both first-degree misdemeanors.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A convicted drunken driver, jailed for killing a beachgoer in 1996, got a shorter prison sentence Thursday. Robert Welleditch pleaded no contest to driving into two women wading in the ocean, killing one and injuring the other. In 1996, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. However, the guidelines he was sentenced under were declared unconstitutional. Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson imposed a new sentence of 17 years and 4 months, with 2 ASCIICHAR_bd years on probation.

An appeal to save murderer Bryan Jennings from the electric chair was filed Monday by attorneys with the state's Capital Collateral Office.The 181-page document asks Circuit Judge Charles Harris to set aside the sentence imposed in 1986 following Jennings third trial on charges of killing 6-year-old Rebecca Kunash of Merritt Island. Jennings' attorneys also asked Harris to grant an emergency stay of execution.The 32-year-old former Marine is scheduled to be executed at 7 a.m. Friday. Harris said a hearing on the appeal probably will be set Wednesday.

SAN`A, Yemen -- An appeals court Wednesday rejected a 25-year jail sentence issued by a lower court to a Yemeni who kidnapped a German businessman. The court handed down a new sentence of death. Ahmed Nasser al-Zayidi was convicted Dec. 19 of kidnapping a German citizen who worked for United Engineering and Automobile Co., the Mercedes agent in Yemen.

An attorney for state Sen. Lee Constantine on Friday successfully lobbied to modify his client's sentence for a drunken-driving conviction in August. At a court hearing, Orange County Judge Antoinette Plogstedt said she would allow the Altamonte Springs Republican legislator to call his probation officer instead of appearing in person once a month. "Because of what he does, we anticipated he would need to travel" outside Orange County, said Assistant State Attorney Martha Cannon, who did not oppose the revised sentence.